Tucker Carlson for president?
This past weekend Tucker Carlson gave the keynote address at the Heritage Foundation’s Fiftieth Anniversary Summit and Gala. His speech wasn’t about his show on Fox, or the media or the industry...
View ArticleBiden’s pre-written questions present a crisis of confidence
Joe Biden has held the fewest press conferences and interviews of any president since Ronald Reagan. And now we’ve learned that when he is allowed to take questions, they appear to be pre-selected,...
View ArticleThe real reason for the Supreme Court smear jobs
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a spate of media stories and dumped opposition against conservative justices on the Supreme Court, intended to paint a picture of vaguely illicit and unethical...
View ArticleThe circus returns to CNN — and CNN employees are very upset
Employees and contributors woke up Thursday morning very upset to learn that they work at CNN, the network that helped in the great cause of giving candidate Donald Trump billions of dollars in...
View ArticleElon Musk’s new CEO will move Twitter toward streaming
Elon Musk’s hire of Twitter’s new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, says a lot about where Musk plans to take the news-dependent, micro-blogging website that has become the center of the media universe. Notable...
View ArticleThe DeSantis announcement is another Elon Musk power move
Ron DeSantis is scheduled to formally announce his entrance into the 2024 presidential race this evening. He’s doing so in a unique and somewhat risky way — on Twitter Spaces with the owner of Twitter...
View ArticleIs Trump taking Hillary’s road to oblivion?
A few months back I asked a question of Donald Trump: does he know why he’s running to be president again? He made one major speech of which even some of his most ardent followers questioned the...
View ArticleHas Donald Trump gotten boring?
It’s no secret that I’m not a personal fan of former president Donald Trump — but through the years I feel I’ve been mostly fair to him, his presidency, his accomplishments and his failures. But...
View ArticleChuck Todd’s send-off from Meet the Press was a mercy killing
Chuck Todd’s departure from Meet the Press this weekend was not a victorious send-off as much as it was a mercy killing. When Kristen Welker was handed a debate in 2020, it felt like only a matter of...
View ArticleChris gets Licht: Jeff Zucker’s inmates still run the CNN asylum
It appears that Chris Licht is a victim of the Deep State of the Union at CNN. Licht is out at CNN, lasting just over a year, during which time he was unable to drain the swamp Jeff Zucker had left...
View ArticlePeter Hotez and his media chums should blame themselves for RFK Jr.’s rise
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rise through the early Democratic primary polls, and the alternative media’s embrace of him, are remarkable. If it feels as if RFK Jr. is everywhere these days, it’s because he...
View ArticleThe media isn’t checking Hunter Biden’s white privilege
Since George Floyd’s death in May 2020, the media has had almost a singular focus on portraying the American justice system as institutionally racist. The political left and their big-name donors have...
View ArticleYouTube’s inconsistent conspiracy policy
YouTube is back up to its pandemic-era tricks with a sketchy and unexplained censorship policy — this time as it pertains to the 2024 election. By all appearances, it once again looks as though Big...
View ArticleThe media’s bizarre Sound of Freedom freakout
A small studio-produced film managed to best a big-budget iconic action hero franchise from Disney on the July 4 box office. You would think that would make for the media an interesting story, both...
View ArticleWhy the media is pushing climate lockdown fantasies
Back in February 2021, I wrote a piece here at The Spectator headlined “Are you ready for the climate lockdowns?” It concerned the predictability of where the climate alarmist movement was heading,...
View ArticleFlorida versus California is the election we should be having
National elections should be about contrast and choice — and those choices should offer the clearest opportunity for parity in the candidates and the parties. If the polls are to be believed, the 2024...
View ArticleMedia begins shoring up Biden’s network flank
Members of presidential administrations taking roles with news networks isn’t a particularly new phenomenon. Former Bush administration press secretary Dana Perino has fostered a successful career on...
View ArticleWho in the media will be Trump’s debate co-conspirator?
Donald Trump is executing an identical debate strategy that he deployed in 2016, right down to the same complaints and threats of boycotts against Fox News and their debate moderators. Trump is...
View ArticleThe death of Superman
In 2003, the Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar penned a three-part illustrated series for DC Comics titled Red Son. In it, he creates an alternate Superman universe that hypothesizes what would...
View ArticleHave you missed them?
You may or may have not noticed, but there is currently a writers’ and actors’ strike happening across Hollywood. Major film productions have been shut down, as have regular television and streaming...
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